Help me welcome a new partner of TheWolfpacker.com, Adam Goldman, owner of FranchiseCoach.net.
NC State first popped onto Adam’s radar when Jimmy V led the Cardiac Pack on its Cinderella run through the 1983 NCAA Tournament and he’s kept a close eye on the Wolfpack ever since.
In 2010, Adam engaged a franchise coach to explore a few options out of the 4,000 brands in 75 industries. He chose an office cleaning concept which he was able to build to 400 buildings cleaned in the Houston area and 40 franchisees. Adam recently sold the business to a strategic buyer.
For the past four years, Adam has helped prospective franchisees navigate the complex world of franchising. His FREE SERVICE helps them narrow their focus down to the three brands that best match them. His process saves his clients time by broadening their focus to include brands that they originally weren't considering but match them best.
"My Dad came home from his corporate job drained daily and he would have really benefited as a franchisee,” Adam said. "He has great management and people skills, he just needed a simplified process around him to become an entrepreneur. I get excited every day helping prospective business owners escape Corporate America and to follow their dreams by becoming franchisees.”
Contact Adam and put your life and career in your own hands.
Adam Goldman, Owner FranchiseCoach.net
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Email: agoldman@franchisecoach.net
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NC State is a little later than almost all of the teams in the ACC, but it has arrived at silly season, that time of the year where the rumors fly and the transfer market gets hot.
It seems this year that more rumors are coming to fruition, but it’s still important to take all “hot stove” talk with a grain of salt. A good example is down the street where the announcement that freshman center Wyatt Kessler was going into the transfer market seemed to validate the strong chatter that a mass exodus is forming, and now UNC insiders are expressing confidence that talk looks overblown.
So, will there be changes coming to the NC State roster? Highly likely. If there wasn’t, then NC State would be the only team in the ACC to escape attrition via the transfer portal. The secret has been out of the bag for a while that freshman guard Shakeel Moore might be evaluating his options the most.
It’s a bit unfortunate the news got out there, but the rumor about Moore has been around behind the scenes for a few weeks now. Does he leave? It’s truly a wait-and-see development right now.
We can say this, from all accounts this was a team that got along well with each other and enjoyed playing for head coach Kevin Keatts. The information we have suggests that any potential player movement would almost seem to be strictly a matter of development and opportunity.
Much like last year, there are also rumors that Keatts is going to take a long evaluation of his staff.
In other words, stay tuned!
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NC State definitely has a scholarship to work with regardless of whether or not there is a transfer out, and it is turning over a lot of stones in the transfer portal to see what options and fits are out there.
It was reported this week that Hampton transfer Davion Warren, who also has Texas A&M in pursuit. It should be noted that there are a ton of transfers linked to A&M, coached by former Virginia Tech head coach Buzz Williams, who we once heard was one of Keatts’ best friends among ACC counterparts.
A name we did not have in our writeup this week on the transfer market but should have included is Charleston Southern’s Phlandrous Fleming Jr. He’s supposedly a lock down defender (two-time Big South Defensive Player of the Year) and averaged 20.1 points per game this year on his way to being named first-team All-Big South, on the same team with Warren.
NC State is familiar with Fleming since it both played him in 2017 and scouted for him for a game earlier this year in which Fleming was a late scratch. He scored 17 points against NC State when he was a freshman.
As of earlier this week, our understanding was NC State had not offered Fleming (but Texas A&M had). The potential to play for hometown Georgia for the Athens, Ga., native is also apparently tempting, and the Bulldogs are involved.
One important thing to note with transfers: there are a lot of conversations but that does not necessarily mean NC State is ready to take transfer X, Y and Z. A lot of what the Wolfpack is doing is exploratory.
We have not seen him linked publicly yet, but we would be surprised if NC State did not try on Parker Stewart, a guard formerly at Pittsburgh who then went to UT Martin. Stewart (6-foot-5, 210 pounds) would be the ideal target, having proven he can play in the ACC when he averaged 9.1 points per game as a rookie in 2017-18. In his one season at UT Martin, he poured in 19.2 points a game, and he was set to play for Indiana next year until it fired Archie Miller. NC State reached out to Stewart before he picked IU.
NC State first popped onto Adam’s radar when Jimmy V led the Cardiac Pack on its Cinderella run through the 1983 NCAA Tournament and he’s kept a close eye on the Wolfpack ever since.
In 2010, Adam engaged a franchise coach to explore a few options out of the 4,000 brands in 75 industries. He chose an office cleaning concept which he was able to build to 400 buildings cleaned in the Houston area and 40 franchisees. Adam recently sold the business to a strategic buyer.
For the past four years, Adam has helped prospective franchisees navigate the complex world of franchising. His FREE SERVICE helps them narrow their focus down to the three brands that best match them. His process saves his clients time by broadening their focus to include brands that they originally weren't considering but match them best.
"My Dad came home from his corporate job drained daily and he would have really benefited as a franchisee,” Adam said. "He has great management and people skills, he just needed a simplified process around him to become an entrepreneur. I get excited every day helping prospective business owners escape Corporate America and to follow their dreams by becoming franchisees.”
Contact Adam and put your life and career in your own hands.
Adam Goldman, Owner FranchiseCoach.net
844-800-FRAN
Email: agoldman@franchisecoach.net
DM: @FranchiseCoach
•••
NC State is a little later than almost all of the teams in the ACC, but it has arrived at silly season, that time of the year where the rumors fly and the transfer market gets hot.
It seems this year that more rumors are coming to fruition, but it’s still important to take all “hot stove” talk with a grain of salt. A good example is down the street where the announcement that freshman center Wyatt Kessler was going into the transfer market seemed to validate the strong chatter that a mass exodus is forming, and now UNC insiders are expressing confidence that talk looks overblown.
So, will there be changes coming to the NC State roster? Highly likely. If there wasn’t, then NC State would be the only team in the ACC to escape attrition via the transfer portal. The secret has been out of the bag for a while that freshman guard Shakeel Moore might be evaluating his options the most.
It’s a bit unfortunate the news got out there, but the rumor about Moore has been around behind the scenes for a few weeks now. Does he leave? It’s truly a wait-and-see development right now.
We can say this, from all accounts this was a team that got along well with each other and enjoyed playing for head coach Kevin Keatts. The information we have suggests that any potential player movement would almost seem to be strictly a matter of development and opportunity.
Much like last year, there are also rumors that Keatts is going to take a long evaluation of his staff.
In other words, stay tuned!
•••
NC State definitely has a scholarship to work with regardless of whether or not there is a transfer out, and it is turning over a lot of stones in the transfer portal to see what options and fits are out there.
It was reported this week that Hampton transfer Davion Warren, who also has Texas A&M in pursuit. It should be noted that there are a ton of transfers linked to A&M, coached by former Virginia Tech head coach Buzz Williams, who we once heard was one of Keatts’ best friends among ACC counterparts.
A name we did not have in our writeup this week on the transfer market but should have included is Charleston Southern’s Phlandrous Fleming Jr. He’s supposedly a lock down defender (two-time Big South Defensive Player of the Year) and averaged 20.1 points per game this year on his way to being named first-team All-Big South, on the same team with Warren.
NC State is familiar with Fleming since it both played him in 2017 and scouted for him for a game earlier this year in which Fleming was a late scratch. He scored 17 points against NC State when he was a freshman.
As of earlier this week, our understanding was NC State had not offered Fleming (but Texas A&M had). The potential to play for hometown Georgia for the Athens, Ga., native is also apparently tempting, and the Bulldogs are involved.
One important thing to note with transfers: there are a lot of conversations but that does not necessarily mean NC State is ready to take transfer X, Y and Z. A lot of what the Wolfpack is doing is exploratory.
We have not seen him linked publicly yet, but we would be surprised if NC State did not try on Parker Stewart, a guard formerly at Pittsburgh who then went to UT Martin. Stewart (6-foot-5, 210 pounds) would be the ideal target, having proven he can play in the ACC when he averaged 9.1 points per game as a rookie in 2017-18. In his one season at UT Martin, he poured in 19.2 points a game, and he was set to play for Indiana next year until it fired Archie Miller. NC State reached out to Stewart before he picked IU.
